Bourne Shell

StevenBourne? wrote the most widely disseminated of the UnixShells: /bin/sh

Many of the Unix startup scripts are written for this shell. BourneShell scripts are the most portable across architectures, vendors, and even some non-Unix OperatingSystems.

It is said that sh has the LambdaNature. Similarities to the untyped LambdaCalculus:

• Single data type (character stream)
• Programs are composition of functions (pipe cells)

Today, the most commonly-used implementation of the BourneShell is its descendant, the BourneAgainShell.

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See also HereDocument

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The Bourne Shell allows one to do anything that one can do onn a GUI (except, of course, look at images (unless you call AsciiArt images)). CategoryUnix